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Saturday, December 2, 1978 · Maple Leaf Gardens

Rangers 2 at Maple Leafs 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Lanny McDonald Maple Leafs First Star 1G · 2A · 7 SOG C 95OVR Darryl Sittler Maple Leafs Second Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG L 59OVR Pat Boutette Maple Leafs Third Star 2G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:19 Anders Hedberg (9) PPG Mike McEwen (9), Phil Esposito (10) NYR 1 – 0 TOR

2nd Period

  1. 5:10 Lucien DeBlois (5) Steve Vickers (7), Phil Esposito (11) NYR 2 – 0 TOR
  2. 7:51 Darryl Sittler (13) PPG Ian Turnbull (19), Dave Williams (6) NYR 2 – 1 TOR
  3. 9:42 Darryl Sittler (14) Lanny McDonald (18), Dave Williams (7) NYR 2 – 2 TOR
  4. 14:56 Pat Boutette (5) Jimmy Jones (2), Ian Turnbull (20) NYR 2 – 3 TOR

3rd Period

  1. 9:53 Pat Boutette (6) Lanny McDonald (19), Dave Hutchison (3) NYR 2 – 4 TOR
  2. 14:26 Lanny McDonald (14) Darryl Sittler (17), Garry Monahan (4) NYR 2 – 5 TOR

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 0 2 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.33
Lucien DeBlois C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Steve Vickers L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Mike McEwen D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Anders Hedberg R 1 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.38
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dean Talafous C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Pierre Plante R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dave Maloney D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mario Marois D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Ron Duguay C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dave Farrish D 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.15
Pat Hickey L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Ron Greschner D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 36 31 5 .861 60:00 -0.65

Toronto Maple Leafs

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Lanny McDonald R 1 2 7 0 0 +1 0:00 2.68
Darryl Sittler C 2 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 2.58
Pat Boutette L 2 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Ian Turnbull D 0 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.48
Dave Williams L 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.18
Dave Hutchison D 0 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Jimmy Jones C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Garry Monahan L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Borje Salming D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Walt McKechnie C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Ron Ellis R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dan Maloney L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
John Anderson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jerry Butler R 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Bruce Boudreau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Burrows D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Trevor Johansen D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer W 32 30 2 .938 60:00 1.50